Specialists believe that the ancestors of this trio were more similar to the current inhabitants of the Mediterranean and Middle East than the Egyptians of today. They maintain that they had light brown skin, dark eyes and hair and did not have freckles.
“These results are highly consistent with the conclusions of Schuenemann and others that ‘ancient Egyptians shared more ancestry with the inhabitants of the Near East than present-day Egyptians, who received an additional sub-Saharan mixture in more recent times’ and that they had an allele for lighter skin, “they noted from Parabon Nanolab.
